Humble Bee (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 05, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, May 7, 1928 Page: 4 of 4
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Monday, May 7th, 1928
HUMBLE BEE
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Inter‘Department League Off To Big Season
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0AEMTRE
STANDING OF THE TEAMS
Play. won lost Pct.
2 2
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IN
INSTRUMENT
OFFICE TIES
OPENER
Ted Hunt
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May 2nd.—Playing off the tie that
resulted when these two clubs first
Borden; Pipefitters: Trollinger and
Mallroy.
uniforms.
Batteries:
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
2
2
2
1
2
Batteries: Cracking Coil: Slaughter
and Higgingbotham; Mechanics: Ted
Hunt and Maxwell.
April 23rd—In the opening game
of the season Frank Fowler’s Instru-
ment Department nine played Mana-
ger Lewenthal’s Pencil Pushers to a
5 to 5 tie.
ing station, winning 1
start 13 to 1.
Batteries: Mechanics:
Batteries: Office; Brody, Krenick
and Walker, Instrument: Beard and
Phillips.
0
0
0
1
1
1
1 '
2
April 30th—While Ted Hunt was
completely subduing Frank Fowler’s
Instrument Department hitters, Ted’s
mates ran 13 tallies across the count-
" On Tuesday May 8th the patrons
of the Baytown Humble Club thea-
tre are due a rare treat, for on that
night the United Artists Special pro-
1000
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1000
500
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000
April 26th.—John A. O’Dell led his
process warriors against George Ed-
ward’s Pipefitters and emerged with
an eleven to nothing victory. The
Pipefitters turned out in their new
Process: Dewitt and
April 27th—Bobby Carter’s hard
hustling Doctors from the land of
DeeDee got an early lead that was
sufficient to defeat Gene Wilson’s P.
G. & W. nine by the score of 11 to
7
Batterles: DeeDee: McMillan, Blox-
om and Bonds; P. G. & W., Brin-
ley, Wilson and Pennery.
With the eight evenly matched
teams in the race, and all of them
playing an excellent brand of baseball
the Refinery Inter-department league
is off to a better start than ever be-
fore. The interest is at fever heat
and each game attracts about a hund-
. red rabid fans. Three of the eight
clubs have uniforms, and the other
nines are contemplating the purchase
of suits in the near future.
* * *.
PROCESS IN EASY WIN OVER
PIPEFITTERS
their second
and Maxwell; Instrument: Ward,
Beard and Phillips.
❖ * *
DEEDEE COPS SECOND GAME
April 24th—Timely hitting behind
the excellent pitching of Big Ed
Slaughter enabled Earnie Hunt’s
Cracking Coil club to hand George
Curtin’s Mechanical Department nine
an 8 to 6 defeat.
met Frank Fowler’s Instrument nine
defeated the Office by the score of 9
to 5. Jimmy Carroll succeeded Lew-
enthal as manager of the Office Club.
Batteries: Office: Krenick and
Lewenthal; Instrument: Lowe and
Phillips.
Team
DeeDee
Cracking Coils
Process
Mechanical Dep’t
Instrument Dept.
Office
P. G. & W.
Pipe Dep’t
*
***
CRACKING COILS NOSE
OUT MECHANICS 8 TO 6
* * *
MECHANICS SWAMP INSTRU-
MENT CLUB
May 1st—The DeeDee Doctors went
to the top of the percentage column
when they defeated the luckless Pipe-
fitters for their second win of the
season. The score was 4 to 2, and
the game was the best played contest
of the season.
Batteries: DeeDee: McMillan and
Dawson, Bonds; Pipe Fitters: Ed-
wards, Trollinger and Mallroy.
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INSTRUMENT DEPARTMENT DE-
FEATS OFFICE
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DEEDEE DOCTORS DEFEAT
P. G. & W.
may be no misunderstanding that thee .
characters in the picture do not look
J like the ones in the comic strip; that
would be expecting a little too much
> from the genius of Hollywood. But
i they do act like George McManus
. famous tribe, and you’re pretty sure
to get a big laugh out of the film.
The name of Johnny Hines’ latest
feature is “Chinatown Charlie” and
it is coming May 15th.- Johnny has
never made a poor comedy, and
“Chinatown Chalie" is said by the
critics to be the best of the lot.
* * *
The real feature of the period is
coming May 18th. It is the great
United Artists Picture that has had
America laughing ever since its re-
lease, “Two Arabian Knights.” It has
everything necessary to make a great
film, and judging by the records it
has been making all over the country
it is a great film. Paste the date in
your hat band, and don’t fail to see
“Two Arabian Knights.”
the famous Duncan Sisters will be
exhibited at regular prices. “Topsy
and Eva”-is. a sort of burlesque on
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and is said to
be a veritable riot of fun and laugh-
ter. It is too good to miss.
***
In fact the first half of May seems
to be laugh time, for following right
on “Topsy and Eva” comes “Bring-
ing Uf Father” on Friday, May 11th.
Everyone knows at once what 'bring-
ing Up Father” is all about. Jiggs is
there in all his glory, as is Maggie
and Dinty Moore and the rest."We
might say here in order that there
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Eight Teams in the Race
With Three Undefeated
Thus Far
duction “Topsy and Eva” featuring "
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Roaper, R. B. & Mabry, G. A. Humble Bee (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 05, No. 22, Ed. 1 Monday, May 7, 1928, newspaper, May 7, 1928; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1481849/m1/4/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Oil+and+Gas+-+Refineries%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.